Generate exam from a question bank?Elaborating further: I'd like to take all 100 of the Chapter 5 questions I've typed up over the years and put them in one question bank. I'd like to be able to randomly select, say, 5 of them, thereby generating a short practice test for my students. I may generate 5 such exams that they could use over the course of a week to prepare for the Ch 5 exam. Right now, I do this manually (by cut and pasting), but of course am looking for a better way.

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Generate exam from a question bank?Perhaps, but I am not familiar with Perl. My motivation was to take the existing functionality of the exam documentclass and just automate things via a question bank.

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Generate exam from a question bank?Sure thing! I am open to anything that works. Also, say I had 20 questions in the bank. It would be important for me to be able to specify that I want, say, 5 questions (pseudo)randomly chosen from the bank.

tikz tree fork down edge labelsI'd like for the text to run horizontally but be positioned just to the right of that vertical line. Imagine if I had placed that blue text in a horizontal line 2mm to the right of the center of that first vertical line stemming from the 3.

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Curved Paths as CalloutsSo "try using to[zigzag] rather than trying to manually recreate that behavior yourself each time".

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Curved Paths as CalloutsYour comment is ridiculous. How is it a "do it for me" question when I very specifically (in bold font no less) said, "tell me how you think about the question" and NOT "tell me how to do it". In fact, I don't care at all about how to do the particular graphic I pasted. It was merely a categorical example.

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tikz graphics slightly cropped@percusse: Removing the thick helps everywhere except on the portions on the ellipse. Removing line width=2pt and thick fixes everything, but in the end I need lines thicker than the default.

Stating a linear programI came to post this method (which is what I use), but Thorsten did it first and did it very well!

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How to make text aligned left/center/right in the same line?If this answers your question, please consider marking it as ‘Accepted’ by clicking on the tickmark below the vote count. This assigns reputation points to the author of the answer (and to you!) Additionally, you can upvote answers (and questions) that you think are good, by clicking the upward-pointing triangle next to the post.

Appending a line (of fixed length) to a spring drawn with tikz coil@Harish: I edited my solution to incorporate your advice. Notice that I needed to pass two arguments into your \myfig: the length of the spring section and segment length in the coil decoration, so I wasn't able to code it as pretty as yours, but the final result is what I was after. Thanks for your help.